Reliability Engineer Advisor, Thermal Systems & Cooling

IE US Operations Inc., part of IREN, is hiring a Reliability Engineer Advisor to provide technical accountability for thermal and cooling assets across its data center portfolio. The role sets asset strategies, operating envelopes, and water-quality limits while directing and mentoring campus reliability engineers and supporting failure analysis and operational readiness.

Responsibilities:

• Own the asset strategies for the thermal and cooling asset classes across the portfolio: criticality-based maintenance strategies, spares criticality and OEM service requirements, loaded into the CMMS and adopted at every operating campus
• Set the operating envelopes and limits for thermal systems and the water-quality limits for cooling water and coolant; hold technical accountability (TA1) for deviations from them; escalate enterprise-level deviations to the Senior Manager and the Global Director
• Own the cooling-water and coolant chemistry program: treatment specifications, vendor performance requirements, monitoring and audit, and the response when limits are exceeded
• Provide the functional direction for the campus mechanical and HVAC reliability engineers (TA2): profile, hiring panel, onboarding, technical objectives and appraisal input; mentor and develop them in the discipline
• Lead failure analysis for thermal and cooling events: RCA for severity 1 and repeat failures, findings converted into strategy and limit changes, design lessons fed to Engineering
• Specify what is monitored on each thermal asset class, the thresholds, and the asset-health analytics that feed strategy
• Support operational readiness for new campuses: review cooling plant design and commissioning deliverables for operability and maintainability, define the thermal acceptance criteria at each readiness level, and confirm strategies, spares and limits are in place before handover
• Provide the thermal and cooling inputs to lifecycle, risk and investment decisions and the technical basis for OEM service decisions

Requirements:

• Degree in mechanical or process engineering
• 10+ years in reliability or plant engineering on mission-critical or industrial cooling and utility plant
• liquid cooling experience or the ability to transfer similar knowledge and come up to speed on it quickly
• Cooling-water and coolant chemistry: treatment programs, water-quality limits and their monitoring
• Process and thermal engineering: heat and mass balance, plant optimization, redundancy philosophies and the consequence of a cooling failure for IT load
• Reliability method: RCM/FMECA, criticality-based maintenance strategies, operating limits, failure analysis and RCA; has loaded strategies into a CMMS
• Working literacy in controls (BMS/SCADA) and electrical systems sufficient to coordinate with the controls and electrical engineers
• condition monitoring for rotating and thermal equipment
• Non-authoritative technical leadership: sets and defends a standard with site engineers and operations managers through functional direction; clear technical writing; at home on the plant floor and in a design review
• professional registration an asset
• mechanical engineering plus mission-critical chiller plant
• Chemical/process engineering plus industrial utilities and water treatment advisable
• CMRP/CRL, CEM or refrigeration credentials